MidWest WeirdFest’s 2025 program will include a special late night tribute to David Lynch, comprised of a retrospective screening of ERASERHEAD, and two related short films. The screening takes place at 10pm Saturday, March 7, 2025 at the Micon Downtown Cinema in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
The surreal masterpiece of cinema, ERASERHEAD was the first, groundbreaking, feature film made by the late American auteur David Lynch, who passed away last month. The 1977 Lynch classic, will screen with a short documentary about veteran rock producer Butch Vig's own strange encounter with Lynch, and the making of the Silversun Vig-Ups song and music video “David Lynch Has a Painting Made of Flies Eyes”, which was inspired by Vig's experience.
Butch Vig in LOOK AT MY FURNITURE
"The dearly departed and deeply delirious David Lynch was, and always will be, a guiding strobe light of creative freedom,” says documentarian Michael X Ferraro. “He ripped open portals of possibility for people like Butch Vig, who vividly remembers seeing ERASERHEAD at the Majestic Theater in Madison four times on its opening weekend. BLUE VELEVET was my gateway drug, and it was quite a thrill to take the electric charge generated by SSVU's Lynch-inspired banger "David Lynch Has a Painting Made of Flies Eyes," and somehow transform it into our weirdo documentary/meditation-on-inspiration, LOOK AT MY FURNITURE."
Bob Antone in 253 YARDS EAST
Also accompanying ERASERHEAD, will be 253 YARDS EAST, a short film from Bob and Laura Antone. They are long time residents of North Bend, Washington, the “real” TWIN PEAKS and the shooting location of David Lynch's and Mark Frost's cult TV series. Within the short, Bob Antone, a well-known and respected folklorist, musician, and author, gives us some insight into this strange geography, where real life and art intersect between parallel and overlapping worlds
Tickets for MidWest WeirdFest’s special David Lynch Tribute, which includes ERASERHEAD, are available for sale now. As are discounted festival passes, here:
Individual tickets to other films will go on sale closer to the festival; both on the fest's website, and directly from the Micon Downtown Cinema in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
The festival’s first wave programming announcement can be seen here.
Additional films and full schedule details will be announced next week.